blackness
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"I could hardly breathe. I was hot, I was sweating, my trousers were burning. Total blackness, I've never seen blackness like it."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
"What struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe," said Koch.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
It is blackness that refuses to accept subjugation, to give up.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2024
He wrestled in his spirit and fought down the evil blackness.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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